Andy Warhola worked as a fashion illustrator and commercial artist before turning to the fine art scene. His early work included huge enlargements of comic strip pictures that were used in the display windows of large New York department stores. During the 1960s, at a time when popular culture became a dominant force in both society and the arts, Andy Warhol became the guru of Pop Art. Using the most ordinary objects Coke bottles, Campbells soup cans and the most popular personalities of American culture, Warhol gave them heroic scale and turned them into art. What Warhol created was a new kind of still life in a twentiethcentury massmedia, popularculture mode, rather than the illusionary manner of the nineteenth century. Warhol renounced originality, confused the boundaries of mass art and high culture, and continually challenged the conventions of the gallery and museum. He said, In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

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